To argue that love is an important public good is not the same as saying that all forms of love are equal. Conjugal love, which is heterosexual by definition, has an overriding public value and to defend it as a public good is by definition to defend the public goodness of marriage because conjugal love simply is what marriage consists in; period.

Randianism is an ideology in the same swamp as anti-Semitism and all the rest. Its view of the individual and all that flows from it is deeply, fundamentally inhumane. And it should neither be written about as creditable, nor given a place at the table of reasonable discussion.